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Sound, and the King Leopold Ranges lie between King Sound and York Sound (to 

 the north), so that these localities are in the same district as that from which the 

 type came. 



Iu his Report on Portions of the Kimberleys (1905-6), published in 1907, 

 he refers to this species as restricted to the sandstone and quartzite ranges, table- 

 lands and sandv foot-hills, and states that with its masses of orange-scarlet flowers 

 and mealy white inflorescence it is quite a feature in the landscape. It grows in 

 the poorest of soils, and often flowers as a shrub of only a few feet in height. 



Northern Territory. — It is the " Bloodwood " of the Northern Territory, 

 according to Professor Baldwin Spencer and others, though Mr. W. S. Campbell 

 calls it "Woolly Butt," as appears to be the more general name in North 

 Western Australia. The appearance of the bark approximates more to those of 

 the Bloodwoods of Eastern Airstralia. 



It is the " Melaleuca Gum " of Leichhardt in his " Overland Expedition 

 from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, e.g., pages 263, 410, 470, 471, 474, 475, 480, 

 535. In the map accompanying this work (see May 16 and 17), when on the 

 Upper Lynd, opposite Rockingham Bay, he uses the name " Orange-blossom 

 Stringybark," in reference to the colour of the flowers, but the bark he refers to as 

 "lamellar." 



Eollowing are the principal references to the "Melaleuca Gum" in the 

 above- quoted work : — 



. . . a Eucalyptus, with very scanty foliage, orange-coloured blossom?, seed-vessels longitudinally 

 ribbed, and as large as the egg of a fowl ; its butt was covered with a lamellar bark, but the upper part 

 and the branches were white and smooth (p. 263). 



Here we again observed the gum-tree with orange blossoms and large ribbed seed-vessels, which we 

 found at the Upper Lynd, and had called Melaleuca Gum (p. 410). 



He was now off the south coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, opposite the Sir 

 Edward Pellew Islands. 



Leichhardt collected it " from the Upper Lynd to Port Essington," ar.d 

 called it " The Melaleuca Gum-tree with very large seed-vessels, .... fine 

 orange blossoms, big seed-vessels, 1\ inches long, 1 inch broad." The above is a copy 

 of a herbarium label in Leichhardt's handwriting from the Paris Herbarium. 



In the National Herbarium, Sydney, we have it from Darwin (N. Holtze) ; 

 "Bloodwood," Hell Gate, Proper River, common, Darwin to Roper River (Baldwin 

 Spencer); "Woolly Butt," "The universal Eucalypt of the Territory" (W. S. 

 Campbell) ; Pine Creek Railway (E. J. Dunn) ; Gulf of Carpentaria (R. Brown, 

 1S00-5) ; 8-mile Spring on to Tanumbirini (near creeks and springs). "Stem like 

 Bloodwood. Appears to be same species as White Elowering Gum" (G. E. Hill, 

 No. 809). 



Northern Queensland. — "Walsh River (T. Barclay-Millar) ; Croydon (James 

 Gill). 



